Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute
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The Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute features the history of Arkansas as told through the entries of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a program of the Central Arkansas Library System Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
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Little Rock native became a pioneering Christian broadcaster.
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In 1971, Texas minister James Ellison founded The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord, a white supremacist gang.
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The firing of two Fort Smith Southwestern Bell telephone operators who were organizing a labor union led other women who worked for the company to walk out and strike on September 19, 1917.
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A Fort Smith native published an anthology of her short stories that pilloried society in small southern towns.
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Saltpeter mines in the Arkansas Ozarks were a vital resource to Confederate forces during the Civil War.
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One of eighteen children of a St. Francis County couple, Eddie Reed would become a nationally known cancer researcher, oncologist and expert on health care disparity in the U.S.
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An 1806 exploration of the Red River following the Louisiana Purchase was the biggest, costliest and best-equipped expedition of the first decade of the nineteenth century.
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World War I manufacturing needs led to the creation of a short-lived shipping point on the Mississippi River.
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Rubicon, a Saline County community named for a Roman river, has largely passed into history.